Dividend Income – September 2025 Update
Welcome to another month of dividend income update. It’s hard to believe that Q3 is already in the books and we are in the last quarter of 2025. Where did the time go? For those …
Dividend Investing
How do you invest in dividend paying stocks so you get paid every quarter or every month? Invest in companies that make products that you use and rely every day.
Why is dividend investing an effective investing strategy?
Random thoughts – worst day of the market, tech or not, leveraging, etc
As I write this on Oct 12, we just experienced the “worst day” of the stock market since April. The S&P dropped by 2.7%, the NASDAQ dropped by 3.56%, and the TSX dropped by 1.38%. …
Early retirement planning – steps we are doing and planning to do
Earlier this year, I wrote about stepping away from full-time work at the end of 2026 or early 2027. The idea is to either retire early and focus on my hobbies and passions, or transition …
Dividend Income – August 2025 Update
Hello everyone, welcome to another month of dividend income update. We have been doing these monthly dividend income updates since the birth of this blog. We do these updates to chronicle our financial independence journey. …
Q&A with Mark from My Own Advisor – Reaching FIWOOT
The financial independence retire early (FIRE) community is a very supportive and tight-knit one. Because the community is made up of folks who have different backgrounds and different ages, it’s very diverse (not just a …
Random thoughts – AC strike, Japan, Taiwan, dividend portfolio, etc
Based on the recent readers’ survey, 53.8% of you enjoy reading the Random Thoughts posts and 43.8% of you enjoy reading them when they’re investing-related. Only 2.3% of you believe these posts are too random …
2025 Mid Year Financial Independence Journey Review
Over the years, we have done a number of financial independence journey reviews. Many of them were backward-looking looking with us doing some simulated projections to determine where we were on our financial independence journey. …